. Differentiating between four sizes of municipalities, the gender influence is studied along two dimensions: mayor's sex and share of … government is gender balanced. However, in the (rare) case of female-dominated governments, mayors do not appear to engage in PBC …

a Spanish reform that limited the obligation to provide regular budget information, I study the effect of relaxing … to provide quarterly information on cumulative budget execution and forecast deviations. Using a difference … combine the introduction of a gender quota with the transparency reform to study gender differences in budget forecast errors …

Do gender differences matter for politicians' budgetary behaviour when confronted with an exogenous change in the … municipalities from the Madrid region for 2010-2019, we compare gender differences in social services spending before and after the … differences between municipalities conditional on the gender composition of local governments, i.e. council and mayor. Whereas …